than one to which the term "energy" rightfully applies. These are, if you please, non-spatial conflicts, they take place in the "intelligible world," extending through the soul's life-time here, yet pertaining more to the eternal values than to the realm of hours and years.

Exhaustion of energy obviously begins when, encountering the conditions of natural existence, we seek to realise the visions of the soul. One would fain spend days at a time in creative labour but the imperatives of natural existence intervene. One would like to work "without pay and without price," but it is necessary in this mundane realm to seek dollars and cents. Thus the ideal is in sharp contrast with the natural, as sharp as in the ancient days when Plato made his classic description. To be dedicated to an ideal is to give constant thought to the besetting conditions which limit our tasks. The joy of it is found in the abounding life that accompanies the ideal consciousness. Not to be measured in terms of foot-pounds, or with reference to the specific energies of the nervous system, this life wells into operation with absorbing might. While under its sway no man can give heed to its processes but only to its results and the goals it has in view. The more obediently and joyfully a man yields himself to its rhythms the less he cares for the ordinary round of social events with its whirling excitements, its restless pursuit